LIFE WITH PICASSO

Françoise Gilot´s candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the inten se and creative life shared by two modern artists. Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pab lo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middleclass family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped th at she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a fr...[Read more]